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Co-sponsored
by the United Nations Development Program and the Chinese
government, Hangzhou Regional Center for Small Hydro
Power (HRC) was established in 1981. The
mission of HRC is to promote development of small
hydro power (SHP) by conducting training, R+D, consultation,
design and information dissemination etc for the developing
countries.
Under
the Center, there are 6 divisions, i.e. HRC Secretariat,
Administrative Office, New Technology R+D Division
for Medium & Small Hydro, Planning & Design
Institute for Medium & Small Hydro, Yatai Construction
Supervision Consultation Co Ltd and HRC Service Center
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| With
a galaxy of around 100 talents specialized in all SHP
related spheres and with the goal of serving the world,
HRC is beginning to gain high reputation globally. Entrusted
by Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of
Foreign Trade & Economic Cooperation, Science &
Technology, UNDP, UNIDO, ILO, FAO etc, HRC has run over
90 SHP training workshops for nearly 2000 participants,
of which around 1332 participants were from over 100
countries.
Domestically,
HRC is called National Research Institute for Rural
Electrification. At present, HRC has acquired a Grade
B Certificate with the qualification to provide design
services for medium and small size hydropower projects
with installed capacity of less than 300 MW, and has
also acquired another Grade B Certificate for hydropower
engineering construction supervision and consultation.
HRC is entitled with the right to export and import.
HRC has long been a corporate member of both Federation
Internationale des Ingenieurs-Conseils(FIDIC) and
China Engineering Consultation Association. HRC currently
acts as the Secretariat of SHP Network consisting
of 29 member countries in the Asia-Pacific region
and Latin American region, etc. Its magazines "SHP
News" and "Small Hydro Power" are the
main channels for information dissemination among
these countries.
With
its competitive technology, profound experience, widespread
information channels and good reputation, HRC will
continue to provide effective, efficient and satisfactory
services for the owners domestically or abroad in
such fields as project designing, supervision, bidding
& inviting bids, technical consultation and training.
As
one of the renewable and environmentally sound energies,
SHP plays an important role in environment protection,
poverty-alleviation as well as energy supply for rural
areas. Integrated appropriately with irrigation, aquaculture,
flood prevention, agricultural product processing
and tourism, more benefits can be achieved from SHP.
In China, one third of the counties with one fourth
of the population in one half of the land depends
on SHP electricity. |
